1st Edition
Elusive Justice Wrestling with Difference and Educational Equity in Everyday Practice
Biography
Thea Abu El-Haj is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University.
"Abu El-Haj has done an admirable service to those of us interested in educational equity, and attendant questions of leadership and the design of policies that will further social justice goals...[She] successfully captures and analyzes the moments, interactions, and activities through which just or unjust educational experiences are constructed in daily life within the school...This book can make a wonderful contribution to the professional learning of educators and others concerned with the sources of, and response to, educational inequities, especially scholars or practitioners of educational policymaking and leadership."--Anthropology and Education Quarterly
"As an attempt to reveal the complexities of working for educational justice in a school, and as a portraiture, Elusive Justice is an engaging work. Abu El-Haj's interviews with teachers and students vividly illustrate the dilemmas she has invested so much time and effort exploring."--Teachers College Record, May 24, 2007
